Nice new Index page
Posted by NormandC
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Re: Nice new Index page October 14, 2013 05:14PM |
... we had this layout last year for a short period, but then several users voted for the 'old blue', so I've reset to the old style ... it's simply a checkbox in the forums-settings.
But now Markus set it again and the vote seems to be more 'green'
Viktor
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Aufruf zum Projekt "Müll-freie Meere" - [reprap.org] -- Deutsche Facebook-Gruppe - [www.facebook.com]
Call for the project "garbage-free seas" - [reprap.org]
But now Markus set it again and the vote seems to be more 'green'
Viktor
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Aufruf zum Projekt "Müll-freie Meere" - [reprap.org] -- Deutsche Facebook-Gruppe - [www.facebook.com]
Call for the project "garbage-free seas" - [reprap.org]
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Re: Nice new Index page October 15, 2013 06:28AM |
I am very glad it's been changed. I asked about this a LONG time ago, and it was apparently broken and wouldn't work with the Emerald theme (as in, you could change it, but it stayed with the old default regardless).
Still wish that the page was set to a max width of 95-97% instead of 950 px max. On a large screen (eg: 1920x1200), you get a huge amount of white space. I personally prefer to use all my screen real-estate, so wrote a Greasemonkey script to override this.
FWIW: If someone does want to change this, you can either change the max-width variable in Phorum (not sure where that is), or you can edit the theme (which is in templates/emerald). In the file css.tpl, you need to change the highlighted part of the following section:
Via the Greasemonkey script, I change it to:
.. though you can use any percentage you like.
Edit:
Something else that would be interesting is to look into the Subforums module. Particularly, the way that the main index page should then be able to show the unread status of sub-forums. (eg: Seeing that there are unread messages in the Australia sub-forum for example, without having to go into it). See [www.phorum.org] for details.
Note: I am not sure that this would work without re-organisation of the current Phorum folder structure, so that needs to be considered (and tested).
Also the Ignore Forums module would be useful, so I won't see new messages in those forums that I don't want to monitor. See [www.phorum.org] for details.
Because I can't ignore certain forums that I've accidentally read in the past, and because on the front page I can't see what is unread in the sub-forums, I tend to have a bunch of tabs directly loaded for each forum or sub-forum I want to view, rather than reading more of the forum via the main index page.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/2013 06:48AM by Cefiar.
Still wish that the page was set to a max width of 95-97% instead of 950 px max. On a large screen (eg: 1920x1200), you get a huge amount of white space. I personally prefer to use all my screen real-estate, so wrote a Greasemonkey script to override this.
FWIW: If someone does want to change this, you can either change the max-width variable in Phorum (not sure where that is), or you can edit the theme (which is in templates/emerald). In the file css.tpl, you need to change the highlighted part of the following section:
#phorum {
font-family: {default_font};
font-size: {base_font_size};
color: {default_font_color};
max-width: {max_width};
margin: auto;
}
Via the Greasemonkey script, I change it to:
max-width: 98%;
.. though you can use any percentage you like.
Edit:
Something else that would be interesting is to look into the Subforums module. Particularly, the way that the main index page should then be able to show the unread status of sub-forums. (eg: Seeing that there are unread messages in the Australia sub-forum for example, without having to go into it). See [www.phorum.org] for details.
Note: I am not sure that this would work without re-organisation of the current Phorum folder structure, so that needs to be considered (and tested).
Also the Ignore Forums module would be useful, so I won't see new messages in those forums that I don't want to monitor. See [www.phorum.org] for details.
Because I can't ignore certain forums that I've accidentally read in the past, and because on the front page I can't see what is unread in the sub-forums, I tend to have a bunch of tabs directly loaded for each forum or sub-forum I want to view, rather than reading more of the forum via the main index page.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/2013 06:48AM by Cefiar.
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